Re: New Threshold Syntax

The plugin guidelines are like a bible over here. You will not believe how much work i have saved by following the guidelines instead of inventing the wheel by myself. They are in fact terrific.


Its the kinks in extra-opts that is my current source of under enthusiasm.

Namely: 

1) By observing the examples it seems the following is allowed:
# ./check_stuff --extra-opts=@/etc/myconfig.ini
# ./check_stuff --extra-opts -jk --some-other-opt


The latter one causes confusing ambiguity and its not supported by python's OptionParser. I'd prefer to see it removed from the spec. and replaced with --extra-opts='' to achieve the same end result.






----- Original Message -----
From: "Holger Weiß" <[email protected]>
To: "Nagios Plugins Development" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 12:13:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] New Threshold Syntax

* Páll Guðjón Sigurðsson <[email protected]> [2013-09-03 11:43]:
> I would personally like to see the new threshold syntax move forward
> once someone is willing to spend the proper resources on it. In the
> meantime you guys can help out a lot and give this alternative syntax a
> better name than "the new threshold syntax". We claim to support it in
> pynag, but 10 years from now my code will look really silly if it
> references "the new threshold syntax" everywhere.

I see you point, but *I* am incredibly bad at naming things, so someone
else will have to jump in.

> On those notes, we try to follow very closely the guidelines that you
> guys give us, namely plugin developer guidelines and extra-opts
> guidelines, no matter what we think of them

Hehe, I don't know why, but for some reason I get the feeling your're
not completely brimmed over with enthusiasm for these terrific
standards!

> but one thing that would help us a lot if you can put a version number
> (or even just a date) on the guidelines that you post.

Good point, will do.

Holger

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